Bit of a pet peeve from us here at the MacDoctor today. Email bloat!
Whether you use Apple Mail or have crossed to the dark side and dabble with Microsoft Entourage, ( a whole other rant), most people’s email application woes often source back to database corruptions. And the more emails, received, sent, deleted, junked and drafted you have populating your email app, the more opportunity there is for a file to go skwiffy and mess up your perfectly happy email program.
Now we’re not saying don’t keep, sort, archive or otherwise hold on to important emails. But keep a sense of perspective and make a more active decision about what you keep and what you delete.
For instance, if you set your application to say permanently delete it’s sent, trash and junk mailboxes after one week, it will be up to you actively move items you truly want / need to a different location. And once you get in the habit, it won’t take you long at all. You’ll certainly find you no longer have a need for those 3000+ emails you sent saying ‘ fine, see you at 8′ over the course of the last 18 months.
In our experience, the daily or weekly time you spend now, going through your email debris, will seem like nothing compared to the time, money and headache of calling someone like us to come and resurrect your email database when it all goes wrong and fails to load on the one day you most need it to.
Prevention is better than cure. Be a man, move that mouse over delete and make a decision or two when it comes to the emails you keep and delete.
